What is "lendings"

Usage examples of "lendings".

Fortunately, the merchant who holds your valuables will often pay you quite a good percentage for his own lendings against what is yours.

I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.

They wore dresses by day, but there was a tendency after dark to strip these lendings and to career and squall about the compound in the aboriginal ridi.